teaching socially approved gender roles and sexuality
family provides economic function
1 primary socialisation
transmitting shared norms and values
2. reproduction of next generation
society can’t function without kids
4. family provided economic function
gender roles teach boys to adopt an instrumental role
parsons 2 functions of nf
primary socialisation- child learns norms and values that are specific to a culture
stabilisation of adult personalities - warm bath theory - emphasises the emotional security in marital relationships = women destresses man after hard day at work
infantile regression
stabilisation of adult personalities within marriage allows adults to go back to their childhood by playing with their children
X rose tinted view of family - ignores abuse, dark side
X ethnocentric view - disregards other cultures
X patriarchal - suggests women are only biologically suited for the caregiver role
